Outside the Beltway

The 2008 Republican nominee for president condemned his party and its president for the release of a controversial memo attacking the FBI.

After spending much of 2017 trying to do it, Republicans are giving up on any effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act before the midterms.

Chelsea Manning is running for Senate, but she may be violating military regulations by doing so.

The President talked about national unity last night, but given his own rhetoric as a candidate and as a President, it’s a call that seems to be hypocritical.

Once again, President Trump is going soft on Russia. Why? I’ll leave that up to the reader to decide.

The Polish Government appears ready to approve a law that seeks to whitewash the truth about the role that many Poles played in the Holocaust.

And a little Electoral College for good measure.

Despite mounting evidence and outrageous behavior, Republicans nationwide and on Capitol Hill continue to do the Administration’s dirty work. They’ll most likely live to regret it.

This is not unreasonable.

It’s been seven years since Congress eliminated earmarking, and what we’ve seen has provided good evidence for the argument that it should never have been eliminated.

Another win for forces fighting partisan Gerrymandering.

The deal that led to the end of the Federal Government shutdown isn’t sitting well with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

It’s Day Two of the Federal Government shutdown and there are few signs of a quick resolution.

The government is shut down and Washington is playing the usual blame game. In reality, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and one of the guilty parties is the American people.

With only days to go, Congress seems unable to come up with either a funding deal for the Federal Government or a solution to the DACA issue.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

The numbers aren’t looking good for Republican prospects in this year’s midterm elections.

The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday in an important case dealing with the circumstances under which voters can be purged from the voting rolls.

A Federal Court in North Carolina has issued a stinging ruling against the partisan gerrymandering undertaken by the Republican legislature in that state.

Controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for Senate in Arizona.

Republican David Yancy was declared the winner of a disputed election, giving the GOP a slim one-seat majority in the state’s House of Delegates.

Contrary to expectations, jobs growth in December was relatively modest.

The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.

President Trump has shut down the commission he established to investigate unsupported claims of “voter fraud” in the 2016 election.

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.

Anti-government protests are spreading in Iran.

Roy Moore continues to think that he is special.

Roy Moore isn’t giving up, but he can’t stop the inevitable.

The battle for control of the Virginia House of Delegates remains up in the air as both sides continue to dispute the outcome in one district.

After nearly twenty years, the Republican domination of the Virginia House of Delegates came to an end thanks to a single vote.

Republicans passed their tax bill yesterday. What that means for the economy and the 2018 midterms is another question.

As we near the end of the year, the President’s job approval numbers remain at historically low levels, and there’s no sign that they’ll improve in 2018.

My latest for The National Interest, “How Trump’s National Security Strategy Breaks with the Past,” has posted.

Two months after a referendum that supported independence from Spain, Catalan voters head to the polls for a new round of parliamentary elections that remain up in the air.

More good poll numbers for Democrats as we headed into 2018.

As he nears the one-year anniversary of his Inauguration, President Trump is getting increasingly bad reviews from the public.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

As expected, Minnesota’s Governor has named his Lt. Governor to replace Al Franken in the Senate.

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

There are no good outcomes for the GOP in Alabama.

A top Republican political analyst is warning that a Roy Moore victory in Alabama could pose real problems for Republicans in 2018. If it does, they’ll have nobody to blame but themselves.

Polling remains uncertain in the Alabama Senate race, but the odds favor Roy Moore.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a second case dealing with political Gerrymandering.

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

Another one bites the dust.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.